Includes any person, whether a resident of the Township of Riverside
or not, who goes from house to house, from place to place or from street to
street conveying or transporting goods, wares or merchandise and offering
or exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers.

Includes any person, whether a resident of the Township of Riverside
or not, who goes from house to house, place to place or from street to street
soliciting or taking or attempting to take orders for sale of services, goods,
wares or merchandise, including magazines, books, periodicals, photographs
or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services
to be performed in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries
or exposes for sale a sample or the subject for such order or whether or not
he is collecting advance payment on such orders.

It shall be unlawful for any hawkers, peddlers, canvassers
or solicitors, as defined in this chapter, to engage in any such business
or operations in the Township of Riverside without having first obtained a
license therefor in compliance with the provisions of this chapter and, in
any event, only in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter
and only in parts or locations of the Township of Riverside as permitted herein.

All licensees who shall offer to sell, display for sale
or sell or deliver fruits and vegetables and farm products from any vehicles
which are wholly or in part open on any of the sides thereof shall, at all
times, keep all fruits, vegetables and produce of any kind and nature completely
screened and covered to avoid and eliminate the accumulation of flies or any
other insects from alighting around or upon any and all said merchandise.

All licensees offering for sale, displaying for sale,
selling or delivering seafood, meats, poultry or dairy products shall transport
the same solely in refrigerated vehicles, and all such products shall remain
in the refrigerated portion of said vehicle at all times to the time of sale
or delivery, and said refrigerated portion, during the uses thereof, in accordance
with this, shall be maintained at a properly low temperature to completely
safeguard all of said products from a health and sanitary standpoint to the
fullest reasonable extent possible for safety and welfare of the public.

No licensee shall at any time permit any debris, waste
material, rotting produce or merchandise of any kind or any unfit produce
to remain in or upon their vehicle unless the same is contained in a metal
leakproof container having a metal properly fitted cover on said container.

No licensee shall canvass or solicit orders of any articles
from pedestrians or vehicular traffic other than when said vehicle has been
properly parked immediately adjacent to the curb of a public street in a permitted
locality, and said licensee shall at no time double park when dealing with
any of his trade and in no event shall transact any of his business operations
other than on the curbside of his said vehicle.

No licensee shall at any time permit any waste materials
or parts of produce or any other merchandise to remain in or upon any street,
roadway, curbs or walks and shall at all times remove any such debris that
may have fallen from his vehicle so that the same is immediately placed in
the metal containers, as hereinabove provided.

All licensees and their respective vehicles or modes
of transportation in carrying on their permitted business shall at all times
fully comply with all of the terms, covenants and conditions of this chapter
and all other applicable municipal ordinances and all other applicable state
laws, regulations or provisions pertaining thereto and, particularly but not
in limitation thereof, that may deal with provisions of health, safety and
general welfare.

The terms of this chapter shall not be held to include the acts of persons
selling personal property at wholesale to dealers in such articles, and nothing
contained herein shall be held to prohibit any sale required by statute or
by order of any court.

The length of time for which the right to do business
is desired and the days of the week and the hours of the day within which
said business will be conducted. Under no circumstances shall a mobile licensee
operate after 10:00 p.m., prevailing time.

A statement as to whether or not the applicant has been
convicted of any crime, misdemeanor or violation of any municipal ordinances,
other than traffic violations, the nature of the offense and the punishment
or penalty assessed therefor.

The applicant shall be fingerprinted, if requested by
the Director of Public Safety, who shall determine whether said fingerprints
are necessary for proper identification, which fingerprints are to be recorded
and processed immediately for classification and identification.

Applications for partners shall be signed by all partners
with foregoing provisions of this section answered in detail as to each said
partner, and applications of corporations shall have attached thereto individual
statements, in accordance with all of the provisions of this section, relating
to each and every employee, agent or servant who shall engage in any of the
functions authorized by this chapter and signed by each such agent, servant
or employee, and full compliance herewith by each such individual.

Any person, organization or association desiring to solicit
or have solicited in its name money, donations of money or property or financial
assistance of any kind or desiring to sell or distribute any item of literature
or merchandise for which a fee is charged or solicited from persons other
than members of such organization at any place or places within the Township
of Riverside for a charitable, religious, patriotic or philanthropic purpose
shall be exempt from provisions of §§ 201-4 and 201-7 of this
chapter, provided that there is filed a sworn application, in writing, with
the Township Clerk or Director of Public Safety, which shall give the following
information:

The name and address of each agent or representative
who will conduct solicitations and the length of time that such agent or representative
has been employed or affiliated with such organization, society, association
or corporation.

Upon being satisfied that such persons, organization,
society or association is a religious, charitable, patriotic or philanthropic
organization and that the agents or representatives who shall conduct the
solicitations are of good moral character and reputation, the Township Clerk
or Director of Public Safety shall issue a permit without charge to such organization,
association or corporation to solicit in the township. Such organization,
association or corporation shall furnish all its members, agents or representatives
conducting solicitation credentials, in writing, stating the name of the organization,
the name of the agent and the purpose of the solicitation.

Each application shall be referred to the Director of
Public Safety or officer in charge of the Police Department, who shall immediately
institute such investigation of the applicant's business and moral character
as he deems necessary for the protection of the public good and shall endorse
the application in the manner prescribed in this section within a reasonable
period of time after it has been filed by the applicant.

If, as a result of such investigation, the applicant's
character or business responsibility is found to be unsatisfactory or the
product or services are not free from fraud, the Director of Public Safety
shall endorse on such application his disapproval and his reasons for the
same and return said application to the Township Clerk, who shall notify the
applicant that his application is disapproved and that no license will be
issued.

Any veteran who holds a special state license issued
under the laws of the State of New Jersey shall be exempt from securing a
license as provided herein for hawking and peddling, but shall be required
to procure from the Township Clerk a special veteran's permit which shall
be issued by the Township Clerk, upon proper identification.

Any person to whom a valid mercantile license shall have
been issued under provisions of laws other than the within chapter shall be
exempt from securing a license as provided in the section, but said person
or said person's employees, agent or servants shall be required to comply
with all other sections of this chapter and shall be required to procure from
the Township Clerk a permit, upon proper identification and said compliance
herewith.

No person subject to the provisions of this chapter shall
canvass, solicit or distribute circulars or other matter or call from house
to house except during reasonable hours during the day and on weekdays.

No person subject to the terms of this chapter shall
enter or attempt to enter the lands or house of any resident in the Township
of Riverside without an express invitation from the occupant of the house.

No licensee or any person in his behalf shall shout, cry out, blow a
horn, ring a bell or use any sound making or amplifying device upon any of
the streets, parks or other public places of the township or upon private
premises where sound of sufficient volume is emitted or produced therefrom
to be capable of being plainly heard upon the streets, avenues, parks or other
public places for the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares,
merchandise or services which said licensee proposes to sell.

No licensee shall have any exclusive right to any location in the public
streets, nor shall any be permitted a stationary location thereon, nor shall
any be permitted to operate in a congested area where such operation might
impede or inconvenience the public use of such streets. For the purpose of
this chapter, the judgment of the police officer, exercised in good faith,
shall be deemed conclusive as to whether the area is congested and the public
impeded or inconvenienced.

The Director of Public Safety shall report to the Township Clerk all
convictions for violation of this chapter, and the Township Clerk shall maintain
a record for each license issued and record the reports of violation therein.

Conducting the business of peddler, canvasser or solicitor,
as the case may be, in an unlawful manner or in such a manner as to constitute
a breach of the peace or to constitute a menace to the health, safety or general
welfare of the public.

Notice of the hearing for revocation of a license shall
be given by the Township Clerk in writing, setting forth specifically the
grounds of complaint and the time and place of hearing. Such notice shall
be mailed, postage prepaid, to the licensee at his last known address at least
five days prior to the date set for hearing or shall be delivered by a police
officer in the same manner as a summons at least three days prior to the date
set for hearing.

All annual licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall
expire at midnight the 31st day of December in the year when issued. Other
than annual licenses shall expire at 12:00 midnight on the date specified
in the license.

This chapter shall not affect any person engaged in delivering wares,
goods or merchandise or other articles or things in the regular course of
business to the premises of the person ordering or entitled to receive the
same.

Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1,
General Provisions, Art. I.

Any person violating the terms of this chapter, whether as principal
or agent or employee of another, shall, upon conviction in the Municipal Court
of the Township of Riverside, be subject to one or more of the following:
a fine not exceeding $1,000; a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days;
or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.